School: Ballyhurst, Tipperary (roll number 4562)
- Location:
- Ballyhusty, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Stás, Bean Uí Fhloinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0579, Page 245
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- The fair starts at six in the morning and ends about one in the morning; it is held in the "Main Street", "Abbey Street" and "Bridge Street", Tipperary cows and pigs, bonhams and sheep are sold there. Heifers are sold at an auction. There is a fair at which all classes of horses are sold.
Names of horses cows and sheep.
Some names of cows are good, polly, rone and grey,
Names of horses are bay, yearling, a colt, a filly, a mare, and a cob.
Names of sheep are, mountainy sheep, yews, wethers, and horny sheep.
- Informant
- Mr James Fogarty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Ballyhusty, Co. Tipperary
